This is a demonstrational video of how to make worm tea from worm castings. You may have your own worm bed as I do or you can buy the worm castings at most garden centers. I hope to have a video up soon on how to make your own worm bed in a rubbermaid storage [...]
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Image by Cooking Up A Story For stories, recipes, and more videos, please visit: Cooking Up A Story Episode: The Vision Behind A Sustainable Restaurant: cookingupastory.com/index.php/2007/03/02/the-vision-behin… Question by callie: What is sustainable Agriculture? What are some ways that it is used and new ideas that are coming? Can you help? Leave your own answer in [...]
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NMSU Professor Thomas Jenkins talks about two solar hot water heater configurations for home use. The water is heated by the sun and is circulated throughout the day either by a solar powered pump or by natural convection.
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Here’s my garden located in Atlanta, GA. It consists of 3 raised vegetable garden beds following square foot gardening principals made popular by Mel Bartholomew. The soil is a third vermiculite, a third peat moss, and the last third is a combination of cow/chicken manure along with mushroom and pecan tree compost. Organic homemade compost [...]
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www.permies.com Alexandra King of Inspiration Farm (http in Bellinghmam, Washington talks a little about how black locust is great fodder, although sheep might like it so much it can make them sick. The sheep thought the black locust was the best tasting things in a brand new paddock. Robinia pseudoacacia. Brian Kerkvliet, also of Inspiration [...]
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Image by ingoism Question by Tiana!: What are the reasons for the growth of aquaculture? Add your own answer in the comments!
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Some new additions to the homestead. Life as a prepper is not doom and gloom but fulfilling and real. Nothing fake here just living life as we where made to live. Our survival and ability to live and thrive by our labor and work of our hands. Life is good.
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www.permies.com Larry Korn spent three years with Masanobu fukuoka and did the translation for the excellent book “One Straw Revolution”. He is now a permaculture instructor in Ashland, Oregon. Larry gives a bit of his background especially as it reflect on his time with Fukuoka. He explains how he studied soil and plant nutrition in [...]
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www.climateagri.org India is identified as one of the countries that will have greater challenges from global warming (IPCC 4th Assessment report). Developing countries are vulnerable to changes in climate change which will have a greater impact on food security not only on India, but also globally affecting poor and vulnerable people. The impact is already [...]
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These melons are taking off! Seems like you can find new melons growing under this tangelo tree every day They are starting to look more like cantaloupes to me and I’ll be picking these ealier since the bugs ate my larger, original cantaloupe that was growing under the navel citrus tree.
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